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Weight: 327.8 lbs ( 148.7 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Instant Pot Chili   Dinner: Tootn' Chili   Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Month 10 (Day 320) Good drop of the weight this morning. The scale was consistent this morning.   Spent the day working with the AI aka “Absolute Idiot” you wouldn't think that it would be so hard to convince a computer to do math. I did kind of chuckle when I realized that I was basically using Chat GPT to program Google Colab into doing what Quicken (not sponsored) is already doing. Oh well, the AI projection is a lot more flexible than what Quicken is able to do. I was slightly annoyed by it because I thought I had it all going fine and so I had ran out to grab a 12pk of seltzer and some cheese for tonight's dinner and when I got back and logged the spending into the projection the totals on the projection didn't change despite just spending $6.07...

Weight: 328.0 lbs ( 148.8 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 54.5 in (138.4 cm) WtHr: 73.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Instant Pot Chili   Dinner: Hamburger Helper Deluxe Cheeseburger Macaroni Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 10 (Day 315) I spent the free time today working with Chat GPT to come up with a budget analysis and planning. I'm afraid that I've used all of the creativity on the AI prompts. (? I'm not sure I want to call it “creativity” as that would imply that I'm making up the stuff I'm writing on here. It's not that I'm making stuff up, I'm just kind of done writing more) I actually came to the limit of what the free version of the AI will analyze. Or at least for the day. I did like the graph that it did eventually come up with. But as it is a projection that goes until the end of 2029 it is a bit condensed and hard to see. In the morning when the timer refreshes I'll ask it to make ...

Weight: 328.2 lbs ( 148.9 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Pork Steak and Eggs Lunch: Keto Paleo Gumbo  Dinner: Hamburger Helper Deluxe Stroganoff Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 10 (Day 308) When I was taking inventory and making the meal plan for the week one of the pork steaks was kind of small and lumpy, not really great for a dinner so I had brought it into the fridge for breakfast this morning. The scale was glitching again this morning. I admit that I had used the lowest number that it had listed, but it was the most consistent number that it gave. It was quite cold in the apartment this morning. It's late October so I shouldn't complain that we still haven't had a hard freeze yet. But it would have been nice to have a heater. I'm sure that the landlord will be out as soon as we call him to have it fixed. But Roommate said that he would be the one to call him and I'm ...

Weight: 328.2 lbs ( 148.8 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 54.0 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Keto Goulash Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Kroger Energy Shot Sober Month 9 (Day 284) Keto Day 3 Scale is giving me a bunch of random numbers again. But 328.2 lbs (148.8 kg) seemed to be the most consistent number. If I were to cherry pick it would have been 315.2 lbs (143 kg) THAT would have been nice, but would have been very dishonest. And it wouldn't have done me any favors. I did get around to taking inventory of the freezer and making a meal plan for the week. I was going to try to keep this next grocery run to be under $75, but it looks like the stocking up is going to be a bit expensive. So I think this Tuesday's trip I'm going to do the regular $150. But the things I'm going to buy are going to last a couple of weeks instead of the single week trip that I usually budget for. So p...

Weight: 328.2 lbs ( 148.8 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 54.5 in (138.4 cm) WtHr: 73.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken   Dinner: Baked Rib Eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Unsweetened Tea Sober Month 8 (Day 256) Keto Week 1 (Day 11) Bit of a slow start to the day. It was really good weather for sitting around zoning out. Pretty good track on weight loss this month so far. Net loss of 4lbs (1.8 kg) Fascinating coincidence that the difference from yesterday in pounds is the difference so far for the month in kilograms. I was a bit nervous about the trashcan. As I had forgotten to take it to the curb last week it was really overfilled. I had took it out to the curb on Wednesday this week, but as Labor Day was this week the trash collection was delayed a day. However if I didn't take it out there I knew I would forget it and that wouldn't work out very well. What had made me nervous as when I took Roommate to his appointment it was clear ...

Weight: 327.8 lbs ( 148.7 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken   Dinner: Frozen Cheese Stuffed Pepperoni Pizza Drinks: Salted Coffee with Cream, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster Strawberry Dream, Unsweetened Tea Sober Month 8 (Day 245) Keto Day 0 I defrosted the freezer. I tried to finish before Roommate woke up. But it took longer than expected. I'm guessing that August cosplaying as October had something to do with it. I'm not complaining about the weather though. Today's high is 70 (21 C) and it's still August when it could just as easily be 109 (43 C) Roommate woke up before the freezer was done thawing, but he seemed to be pretty understanding. He did seem to be pretty cranky when moving the food from the meal plan out of the way to get to the microwave, but there wasn't any of the typical cursing or screaming. Didn't do much after putting the food back into the fridge/freezer. I did notice a...

Weight: 328.2 lbs ( 148.9 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Keto Paleo Gumbo Dinner: Pork Loin Ribs Drinks: Salted Coffee with Cream, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Unsweetened Tea Sober Month 7 (Day 233) Keto Week 2 (Day 16) When I go to bed I have been setting my phone to play ambient music, space documentaries, or the “Science Facts to Fall asleep to” but last night I thought I would try not playing anything at all on my phone. And I have to say that the quiet was really quite soothing. It was cool enough that the AC wasn't blowing, the phone was off, and I didn't turn on the fan that I have next to my bed. I rested and realized that we don't have much opportunity in the modern world to have it completely quiet. Amazing weight loss progress so far this month. Going to attribute that to being in the second week of Keto. Waist still hasn't gone down by much, but the sides of my gut seem to be coming in. strange...

Weight: 328.0 lbs ( 148.8 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 55.5 in (141 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Tuna Mornay Casserole Dinner: Rib-eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster Keto Month 1 (Day 39) Sober Month 4 (Day 133) I didn't get around to posting yesterday. I really slept in. I only woke up when I heard Roommate screaming at his video games. Turns out playing the games for 20 hours a day for five months straight is rough on controllers. He said that he ordered a new controller, and he insisted that he would be sending me his half of the rent this week. Which if he was buying gaming accessories without paying his half of the rent would be quite frustrating. But he did send me his half of the rent this afternoon. What's kind of fun is that since he sent it to me on a weekday, and I sent it to my bank account during business hours I'll get it tomorrow, and tomorrow is a regular payday also. I did get around to taking inventory of the food ...

Weight: 327.6 lbs (147.7 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 54.5 in (138.4 cm) WtHr: 73.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: 4x Bar-S Jumbo Jumbos Dinner: Queso Soup Drinks: Kroger Seltzer Original, Pot of Coffee Black, 12oz Sugar Free Monster Energy, Powerade Zero Orange, 2x Kroger Energy Shot, Couple cups of water Sober Day 6 It's kind of creepy to weigh the exact same as the day before. Was able to take inventory before work and got a meal plan together. The “Dinner” list looks kind of funny because it's just Rib-eyes over and over. But I didn't have room in my freezer for all of them. Didn't have time to defrost the freezer and wow there was a lot of ice built up. I'll try to defrost it after work. Noticed that I was out of Chili. I don't usually run out of chili, I usually have some variety of chili. Sometimes multiple varieties. I'm going to have to fix that but then again I might want to wait until the freezer is a little less full. I was almost late for work...

Weight: 327.6 lbs (147.7 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 54.5 in (138.4 cm) WtHr: 73.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Bar-S Jumbo Jumbos Dinner: Ribeye Drinks: Kroger Seltzer Original, Couple cups of Coffee Black, 12oz Sugar Free Monster Energy, Powerade Zero Orange, 2x Kroger Energy Shot, Couple of the large cups of water that the store provides Sober Day 5 Strange feeling waking up today. Physically well rested, but mind is tired. Hard to explain. Roommate went out back to the road today. I usually tease him about the rent money but I had to get to work. I'm just glad that I got through downtown before they closed Main Street. Apparently they're going to have a “Smallville Festival” downtown over the next couple of days. Roommate was very vocal about how much he hates everything to do with that. But then again listing things that he DOESN'T hate would be a considerably shorter list. I was kind of naughty for lunch. And bought some Jumbo Jumbo hot dogs. I'm sure that I ...

Weight: 327.6 lbs ( 148.6 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwest Style Chicken “Detox” Soup Dinner: Pork Steaks with ranch dressing Drinks: Pot of Coffee,~3600ml water      Grrr ½ pound (0.2 kg) away from the lowest weight so far this year. And that's just switching from diet soda and sparkling water to coffee and tap water. Oh and getting the hell away from beer. Even the “”Low Carb”” stuff. I think my body is getting used to the extra water that I'm drinking, or I got most of that water weight out. Woke up with a bit of a headache and stiff muscles this morning, but it went away as I got up and moving. Wondering if it's more “Keto Flu” or maybe time to invest in a new bedding. The box springs is kind of broken down. Or maybe it's because I'm 36 years old and that's just what mornings are like for someone in their mid 30's      Tried a new flavor of coffee, I usually buy the “Breakfast Blend” ...

Weight: 328 lbs ( 148.8 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 55.5 in ( 141 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Hamburger Sausage Alfredo Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: couple cups of coffee, Tap water    I am at a loss for words for this mornings weigh in. I'm technically under my current goal of 330lbs (149.7 kg) But with daily fluctuations I'm not going to call myself past that goal just yet. I went and looked over my YouTube playlist to see when the last time I was under 330 lbs and it was back in early 2019. And going over that playlist it looks like 330 lbs is a long time hurdle for me. But that's just looking at the thumbnails of the videos. Starting out it looks like I was 314.8 (142.8 kg) back in 2014 and it would be nice to get back to that starting weight. I just can't believe that I'm already down 17.4 pounds (6.5 kg) already! I'm sure that this isn't going to be a sustained rate, but good LORD it's a good start to the year.      Not losing much ...